I've gotten several questions about if we could have local posting here, which led me to do a little bit of research to see what it would be like to add that here.

So far, from what I've seen, it might be more trouble than it's worth, from an instance management perspective. However, I'd love to get a wider amount of input on this! Let me explain a bit more of what I found out in depth:

- If something happens and I have to roll back to the upstream branch, that would be amazingly messy. Old posts would be broken, and posts meant to only be shared with certain groups of people would be shared with the fediverse again.

So, that's what I have discovered thus far. However, that reflects my perspective only. Since you lovely people are paying me to maintain this place, it's much more responsible to ask all of you how you feel before making a decision!

Knowing the positives and negatives, do you still want local-only posting? If so, how do you want that implemented? Please only vote if you are on Merveilles. I'll make a similar poll for Patreon patrons!

Merveilles is a community project aimed at the establishment of new ways of speaking, seeing and organizing information — A culture that seeks augmentation through the arts of engineering and design. A warm welcome to any like-minded people who feel these ideals resonate with them.